How to disable graphic?

    Hello!!

    I just installed LE for my PC using Ryzen 3100 and Gigabyte B450. It works well with a graphic card but cannot work without it.

    Because my PC is a headless music server, I use LE for Dolby Atmos music files (control by webs from another PC) and dont want to use graphic card on it. Pls advise how to run LE without graphic card?

    One more question, how to disable volume control of LE because I use volume control on my amplifier mainly. Disable it will make the sound better a little bit.

    Thanks!

    Edited 2 times, last by Ko853 (November 15, 2021 at 3:40 AM).

    LE does not support a headless Kodi configuration (and I'm not sure one exists, it's been on the roadmap for years). The best compromise is probably running LE as VM under vmware, then the Hypervisor provides a virtual GPU to the VM and you don't need a physical GPU card.

    Thanks for your advice.

    I choose LE because it is small and simple -> good for audio. So, I dont prefer using more app along with LE. Still hope can find the way to run LE without GPU.

    Before that I used Win LTSC with DVDpower or Jriver. Its good enough but less than LE for me.

    Kodi can run off-screen, but not headless, unless hacks are applied to disable the requirement for video output.

    See https://github.com/matthuisman/docker-kodi-headless

    The main use-case for Kodi in headless mode is to manage the DB, not for no-GUI playback, and you might not agree that running an Ubuntu based container on LE via Docker is a desirable way to achieve your goal - You'd also still need to builid an LE image that includes Docker and excludes Kodi (as Kodi will not run if there is no GPU). Choose which hoops you want to jump through.

    NB: The project has no intention of providing 'headless' images, but you could probably self-build an image with the same headless patches. There are instructions in the wiki for self-building standard images. There are no guides for building a headless image. So it's one of those tasks that will require some initiative. I generally hold the view that people with the skills to do that kind of thing generally don't ask questios on how to do it, they just get on with it. And those that need to ask for help and intructions, normally don't succeed.